Friday, November 1, 2013

My Head is Spinning

Summer is spent and, as much as I hate to admit it, fall is
beginning to give way to winter.As we
move into this last season of the year, our calendars get busy.We have Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year celebrations and many things in between.Likewise, our church calendar is full to
overflowing until after the first of the year.

Beginning this Sunday, November 3rd, (which
is also All Saints Sunday) we move to our new worship schedule.We will begin each Sunday at 9:30 am with our
Traditional Worship service followed by Sunday school for all ages at 10:30 am
and our second service, Coffee House worship, will begin at 11:15 am.Even though this isn’t a huge change, I
expect that there will be some growing pains.We all will have to get moving a few minutes earlier to get here by 9:30
instead of 9:40.Worship will be a
little bit different so that it will end before Sunday school begins.As I mentioned last month, we have been
experimenting to see how we could shorten our service up a bit and with a few
minor changes we have been getting pretty close.

At the same time, I will be offering a “new
member” class during the Sunday school hour for anyone who is interested in
joining the church.My plan for this
class is to teaching the basics of what it means to be United Methodist and
what we believe so this might also be of interest to a few of you who are
already members.

During our earlier meetings, the folks from our
second service expressed an interest in making some changes as well but since
they haven’t been meeting all summer, haven’t yet made firm plans to do
so.With that in mind, we will be
starting our new time of worship much as we left off, but we will have a short
meeting after worship each week to make plans for the future and to discuss our
progress.

Charge Conference will be held at McDonaldsville
UMC on Sunday, November 10th at 7:00 pm.We will have a Charge Conference “preview” on
Monday, November 4th for anyone who would like a chance to see all
of our paperwork before we present it in public in McDonaldsville.My deepest thanks to everyone who has
attended and contributed during many, many extra meetings to help us prepare
for this annual event.

At last count, I heard that we have twelve
volunteers for our new adult Bell Choir and so I expect that we will soon see
practices announced.I look forward to
hearing them play for us.

The United Methodist Women will host a
Thanksgiving dinner on November 19th and, having sampled much of the
delicious food that has been prepared by Trinity’s many expert cooks, I am
certain that it will be mouth-wateringly wonderful.

Believe it or not, Advent begins the first day
of December.We have already received
Advent calendars and devotional guides for adults and children that you can expect
to see in the coming weeks.Given the
amazing turnout that we had for our Advent Bible study last year, I have been
asked to have another this year and have already received materials that we
will be using for that as well.

In the days ahead there will also be regular
weekly youth meetings, a youth overnighter, practices for First UMC’s Christmas
play (in which some of our youth will participate), our annual Hanging of the
Greens, as well as all the events that we each have planned with schools, family,
and friends.

As long as this list may look, I
am sure that I’ve missed a great many things that are going on at Trinity.With our shortened Sunday schedule we won’t
have time to announce everything from up front, so it is more important than
ever to read your bulletins and newsletters or you will certainly miss
something.My head is spinning with all
the plans and all the activities that are going on around here, but I look
forward to seeing you here.

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